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July 29, 2005
Drinks WIth The Ex
I went out last night for drinks with my ex girlfriend. It’s something that we do every so often – just to catch up. It’s really nice chatting and going over the memories . . . well, the good ones, at least!
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July 27, 2005
The Age Gap
Are you a person who believes that age range is important when it comes to dating? I certainly am. It’s not that I don’t think that consenting adults of any age can’t be friends . . . or more. It’s just that I think for me, a serious relationship needs a meeting of more than the mind and body. It’s about sharing the experience of life together. That means traveling through the years in a similar orbit.
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July 26, 2005
The Art of Seduction
This entry shall serve as a place marker – a time in my romantic life where I think things are about to change. I’m about to embark on an intellectual adventure. A friend of mine recently plugged “The Art of Seduction” into my book list.
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July 25, 2005
One That Got Away
There was this girl I met back in the beginning of high school. I remember we went out on a double date on Remembrance Day, which was a few day after my birthday. I had received a huge bottle of Polo cologne and made sure to use half of it that night. I’m still not sure how any of us survived but I think it has to do with the great air and wide space of a movie theatre. She stole my heart right from the start. Her personality was bigger than anything I’d ever encountered in my life and she had the smile of an angel. Needless to say, that encounter led to at least three years of heartache, as all good relationships at that stage should. We drifted apart as time went on but reconnected a few years back. She’s married and has a little girl and is living a life that makes her happy. I just got off the phone with her, actually, which is probably why I’m writing this now. I’m glad she’s married and loving life. I know things wouldn’t have worked between us in the long run. We're different people. But at that age, you don’t have the experience to see the vast scope of human connection. I don’t know that any one person ever can. There are just too many variables. What matters, though, is that even after all these years, we stil have the memories to share. Things were up and down before but now there are just smiles and no heartache. That, in my books, is a relationship worth holding onto.
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July 22, 2005
The Eternal Batchelor
Everyone seems to know a guy who appears to be the eternal bachelor. He’s that guy who never takes on a serious, committed relationship. Perhaps he’s in and out of many causal romances with people he meets in bars or online. Maybe he dates very little. Whatever the case, he’s single and there’s no sign of that changing any time soon.
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July 21, 2005
The Breaking Point
When is it that a relationship reaches the breaking point – that time when a relationship slides from worthwhile to no longer worth the effort? Can it be identified? Imagine the money you could make if it could! I see many friends of mine in great relationships, and even some in not-so-great ones, where it looks like they’ve built the base of it on a slippery slope. Some are steeper than others, but the end result is the same.
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July 20, 2005
Vacation Time with Angelina and Brad
How long do you need to date someone to travel? I see Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taking off here and there and it doesn’t feel like they’ve been dating that long. Yes, I always “feel” certain ways about stars that date, in case you were wondering! I know a lot of girls who get invitations from “sugar daddyz” to travel when they first meet. I guess that’s the whole idea of desperate men trying to buy things that they think they can’t get without coughing up the coin.
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July 19, 2005
Day Dates
Do you date more during the day or night? I traditionally date more in the evenings – it just seems more obvious. If it’s during the week, there’s usually little choice in the matter. I’ve never done a date at 8am – prior to my workday. Perhaps I should try that? On weekends, the day is usually used for running around, again leaving the evenings open for my social calendar. The funny thing is, though, that I usually have a better time on dates during the day!
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Different Dating Ideas
What are some of the most memorable dates you’ve had? Do they involve an interesting second party? Maybe they required a cool setting that was the perfect backdrop for your date? Perhaps it was a particular activity that made your meeting extraordinary? In all likelihood, it was probably a combination of the above factors that helped make that date stand out from the rest. In many cases, though, you can recreate that same intensity if you try. All you need are a few creative dating ideas to get you out of the norm.
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July 18, 2005
A Kiss is Just a . . . .
Is a kiss just a kiss or is it really more than we’d like to admit? There seem to be few things as intimate as swapping spit with someone. I apologize for the way I’ve referred to it, but in reality that’s exactly what you’re doing. For some, a kiss is too intimate to share with just anyone. Others will make-out at the drop of a hat. Who’s right? Should it be something you share with only a handful of people in your life or should it be something that you try and experience as much of before you die?
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July 15, 2005
Ms. Money Bags
I have a girlfriend who thinks she needs a big bank account to land the man of her dreams. This is really odd. Normally it’s guys who have this problem, but she’s hell-bent on building her stash of coins so that she can – for lack of a better, less-specific term – buy herself the man of her dreams. It’s really sad. I take it she suffers from low self-esteem and a few personality glitches that a number of men may seem to be faults as opposed to “extra features.”
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July 14, 2005
Russian Dating Debacle
You hear about that jackass in Russia who was using dating services to meet women who he robbed and forced to strip to take pictures of them while holding them at knifepoint? This is the kind of thing that makes me glad I’m not in law enforcement. I don’t know if I could be trusted to keep a character like this safe. People like him make me sick.
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July 13, 2005
Letting The Girl Go
Today a good buddy of mine is ending things with his girlfriend. They’ve been going out for a few years but times have been tough. She’s younger than him by a few years, putting her in her mid-twenties. She’s been partying a lot and these days and he’s in a different place. She has guys sleeping over at her house and he’s not down with that at all.
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July 12, 2005
Missed Chance
I often think about the chances I never took. This happened just last week in the most unusual of places. I was dealing with my taxes and had been on the phone with this representative a few times who was handling my case.
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July 11, 2005
Toronto Tour
I recently did a tour of Toronto on this Hop-on-hop-off bus tour they have. It’s what the visitors do when they come to town to see the city. I went with a friend who is in town from Australia. It was really nice. I hadn’t been out in a wile and I certainly hadn’t one anything like that. Although it would be hard to call the day out a date, it kind of felt like one.
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July 7, 2005
Price of Love
The other day I got yet another smile from a girl on one of the dating sites I belong to. I guess you can say that I’m a “member” if that includes the fact that I own credits there, tokens which I can use to contact someone I’m interested in. I also log in just about every day – and some days I log in many times.
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July 6, 2005
Negative Anchors
Ever find yourself in a relationship situation where you’re supposed to do something fun with the person you love but you just can’t seem to feel as good as you should about it? What might be at fault is that you’ve tied negative anchors to it.
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July 5, 2005
Knowledge
You ever look around at people who are doing something really well and wish you could be doing the same thing? How about this: have you ever learnt something, a skill or a game, and when you learnt it, you realized that despite how difficult you thought it was before, it was now a lot easier because you understood it? The secret to life – this life -- is knowledge.
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July 4, 2005
Courage
Is there anything larger in life than the contract you enter into with the person you love? I don’t think that there is. Love means promising someone that you are with them, by their side, 100 percent. In the beginning, it’s easy. Everything is fresh and new and you overlook the little details that at some point will begin to lodge in your brain and poison your love, slowly. Keeping this contract – this bond between you and your mate – takes a deeper understanding of what love really is and means.
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July 1, 2005
My Girlfriends Parents
I remember the first few times I had to meet a girlfriends parents. They were always stressful, full on angst and awkward situations. That was before I learned to speak like an adult. Now that I have grown up, I still feel all the angst and awkwardness as before – I just got better at hiding it!
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